. A history of Pennsylvania. n Forty Fort, near Wilkes-BarreBuilt in 1770, and rebuilt in 1777 New York Boundary. — There was also difficulty with NewYork in adjusting the northern boundary of first, owing to the small number of immigrants and thewild, unsettled character of much of the country, the locationof the northern boundary was not a matter of greatimportance, but about 1740 the question began to attractattention, and Governor Hamilton in 174^^ claimed territory 1 This incident is intcrestinf, as hcinj^ one of the first steps toward the estab-lishment of a Supreme Court
. A history of Pennsylvania. n Forty Fort, near Wilkes-BarreBuilt in 1770, and rebuilt in 1777 New York Boundary. — There was also difficulty with NewYork in adjusting the northern boundary of first, owing to the small number of immigrants and thewild, unsettled character of much of the country, the locationof the northern boundary was not a matter of greatimportance, but about 1740 the question began to attractattention, and Governor Hamilton in 174^^ claimed territory 1 This incident is intcrestinf, as hcinj^ one of the first steps toward the estab-lishment of a Supreme Court for the Unitetl States. 124 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. which would give Pennsylvania a large part of WesternNew York.^ There was considerable discussion, and claims and counterclaims were made. In 1775 commissioners appointed bythe governors of both provinces agreed upon a stone on an island in the Delaware Riverwhich should be the startingpoint. In 1785 commissionerswere appointed to run a bound-ary line, but the line was notsatisfactory, and finally in 1789both States agreed upon 42°north latitude as the as this would give Penn-sylvania scarcely any coast lineon Lake Erie, she bought fromthe Indians with the permissionof Congress all right to thesmall triangle so famihar on the maps of the State, and in1791 bought from the United States for about $150,000 thenational interests in the triangle. This gave Pennsylvaniaas clear and unimpeded a way to the Great Lakes on thenorth as she had to the ocean on the south, thus carryingout the purpose of William Penn in the earliest days of theprovince.^ ^ This claim was based on the
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